”We chatted for a while, making plans, and by the time I hung up, I felt better than I had in weeks. The thought of seeing the two people I loved mo...t in the world was just what I needed. Plus, it would give me a chance to reconnect with Emma to see if things were cooling between us. If they were, then it would be better if I knew now so that I could start accepting reality. I managed to survive the next few weeks, though, on the evening of Em’s prom, I was a nervous wreck wondering how far she. When a girls number came up for either the NFC or their State Meat Lottery, if the girl should run away they would have a special tactical police force go out and find the missing girl and every female in her family, no matter how young or old they were, would be forced to give their meat as punishment. Very few girls ever ran away but once an 18 year old girl did run away and all the women in her family were called up to give their meat as a punishment. She had to sit and watch each female. Recap from Book 1Darnel had set 4 Mexican Sicario - fanatic teenage boys who were successful killers - to assassinate me “rapido” on the streets of LA. Then, as insurance, the asshole paid a great deal of money to enlist a Sicaria - a deadly young female assassin with the visage of a poor child - who worked slowly to make sure the job was done.I had captured the four. Two of them died horrible deaths necklaced Mandela-style at my hands; they shot at me and I take such things personally. But the. We were the only people in the place that nobody else knew. It was like "Cheers" (only a lot darker, and a much narrower room). A place where "everybody knows your name."The predominantly male clientele was, not surprisingly, intrigued by the fresh-faced, extraordinarily busty young woman who had entered their midst. But the patrons of the bar didn't seem threatening or dangerous. Far from it. They looked at Tess with frank admiration; with longing, even. (With lust, most likely.) But they.